Meditations on Courage & Why Fortune Favors the Brave | Ryan Holiday

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 225 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Ryan Holiday, a popular author whose books have made philosophy and the writings of the ancients interesting and accessible to millions of people. He's done this with bestselling books like "The Obstacle is the Way" and "Ego is the Enemy" and he continues to do this with his latest book "Courage is Calling."

Demetri and Ryan discuss what courage is, why it matters, and if we can learn to live and act courageously. We are living in a time when people would rather stand on the sidelines than speak out against injustice, go along with convention, or bet on their own talents and abilities. And yet, Ryan would argue that we need courage now more than ever.

Our hope is that today's conversation with Ryan will give cause to reflect on how you want to meet the challenges in your own life and what will give you the courage to face your fears and to make choices in this new year from a place of integrity that honors who you are and who you aspire to be.

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Episode Recorded on 12/22/2021

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? My name is Demetra Gafinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces,
0:06.2	a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens to challenge consensus
0:13.3	narratives and to learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:19.0	My guest in this week's episode is Ryan Holiday. Ryan and I were supposed to speak for roughly
0:25.0	two hours today, but because of some last minute rescheduling, we had to keep it to only an hour.
0:30.9	So rather than break that conversation into two 30-minute segments, I put the entire conversation
0:36.5	behind the paywall for Hidden Forces premium subscribers and wanted to use this opportunity
0:42.2	to tell you why I decided to record an episode on the subject of courage and why I think it's so
0:49.2	important. First, let me introduce you all to Ryan Holiday. Ryan is one of those insanely
0:58.0	successful authors who somehow manages to make philosophy and the writings and thoughts of the
1:03.7	ancients interesting and accessible to millions of people. He's done this with best-selling
1:09.3	books like The Obstacles the Way and Ego is the Enemy and he continues to do it with his latest
1:16.3	courage is calling which looks at exactly what the title suggests, courage, what it is, why it
1:23.5	matters today as much as ever, and if it can be taught, if we can find ways to put it into practice
1:30.6	in our daily lives, if we can learn to live and act courageously. This is a subject that has
1:37.6	deep personal resonance with me. As many of you know, I dealt with a brain tumor diagnosis early
1:44.7	and had to find some way to not only treat it, but not to let that diagnosis and the treatments
1:50.4	that would be required of me, to not let those things break me, to find a way through the fire
1:56.0	and through the darkness with my spirit intact. And I discovered during that process that courage
2:03.2	matters, that how we confront the things that scare us, how we relate to them, how we justify
2:09.0	the suffering that so often comes to us in life matters. It doesn't just matter because it's
2:14.8	easier to confront our fears and to do what's right or what's needed when we have courage. That's
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